Its the end of Term 3 of drawing class and I've been looking over the work we did.
Two classes stand out because they lots of fun and because I am thinking the approaches used could translate into fabric and make very interesting backgrounds
The first involved an excursion to a local creek and walking track ....
..... here we collected natural materials from around the site .... grasses, bark, twigs, stones and seedpods ..... whatever took our attention and these were laid on our paper ... to act as natural stencils. We sprinkled them with graphite powder and then sprayed with acrylic inks and then left them to dry before drawing the landscape using just charcoal and sanguine.
This dual connection between the found materials and the landscape produced some lovely results. Here is my effort .. doesn't look too much like the actual landscape!!!
The second class that offered translation potential involved 4 panels and 4 compositions made up of shapes and inspired by foliage of our choice .
Each panel had to work as a composition as did the combined panels.
Dark and light tones were added and then combinations of color to provide the mid tones.
This process produced some very interesting abstract compositions that seem to have the potential to translate easily into fabric.
I chose Magnolia leaves for the foliage and was very pleased with the composition of shapes in the 4 panels. Here is my work so far..... although not happy with the colors however I can see potential ....
I'm keen to try some more combinations and variations of tone and color and over the break will experiment with these ideas and see where it leads.......
